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Sunday, January 4, 2009

Here are a number of Ralph Kiggell's blockprints. I have deliberately left out the names of the prints. I want you to go to his website and explore it and see all the wonderful images there. For more about Ralph look at the entry from Jan 4, 2009 "Woodblock printmaking with artist Ralph Kiggell". Please enjoy.

We visited him in his studio in Bangkok and he showed Emy (9 yrs) and Burton (11 yrs) how to make a print. He then let Burton have a go himself. Burton quickly drew a gecko on a piece of rubber tree wood and then cut out (with Ralph's help) the image, inked it and then printed it by rubbing a "baren" over the paper that had been placed on the block. It was all finished by simply peeling off the finished print from the wood. The experience for all of us was wonderfully rewarding.

Yesterday I was treated to a Full Body Scrub and Aroma Therapy Massage at the Healthland Spa, Sathorn in Bangkok. Wow, never had a massage like that. I have to admit that I've been a little bit of a wimp all of my massage life, sticking mostly to bone-cracking - but oh so good - Chinese foot massage and wonderful head massages at the hairdressers. Never really dared do the all out thing. But now I'm hooked. And thoroughly clean.

I live in an apartment complex with lots of different people and nationalities, good neighbors mostly, especially after the earthquake in May last year. Among the more colorful are the many Tibetans both from the TAR itself and from Western Sichuan. Usually you can see where they live from the balconies sporting prayer flags, meditation cushions and hanging meat. And by the yak doodle in our elevator, scrapped into the metal door.

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